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August 20, 2025
US strikes deportation deals with Honduras and Uganda
August 20, 2025
Chinese national in California jailed for exporting weapons to North Korea
August 20, 2025
Six severed heads found on road in Mexico
SAN DIEGO – As a journalist in Afghanistan, Abdul says he helped promote American values like democracy and freedom. That work, he said, resulted in him being tortured by the Taliban after the US withdrew from the country in 2021.Now he's in California applying for political asylum, amid the looming threat of deportation."We trusted those values," he said. "We came here for safety, and we don't have it, unfortunately."But when Abdul walked into a San Diego court to plead his case, he wasn't alone.Ten veterans showed up for his hearing – unarmed, but dressed in hats and shirts to signify their military credentials as a "show of force", said Shawn VanDiver, a US Navy vet who founded 'Battle Buddies' to support Afghan refugees facing...
August 20, 2025
US military vets are helping Afghans fight deportation
August 19, 2025
Texas police hunt convict 'mistakenly' freed from jail
August 19, 2025
Air Canada to resume flights after pay deal struck with union
August 19, 2025
US State Department revokes 6,000 student visas
August 19, 2025
'Ketamine Queen' to plead guilty in Matthew Perry overdose case
August 18, 2025
Air Canada suspends restart plans after flight attendants union defies return to work order
PORT OF SPAIN — Augustine Ogbo works as a doctor, treating patients in clinics across the striking Caribbean island of St Lucia.When he returns to his home in the coastal town of Rodney Bay, he clocks in for his second job — as the owner and solo chef of a Nigerian takeaway."Egusi soup and fufu, that's more popular... they love jollof rice too," Dr Ogbo says, reeling off a list of his customers' favourite dishes.The 29-year-old hails from Nigeria — population 230 million — but crossed the Atlantic for St Lucia — population 180,000 — to train as a doctor in 2016.He set up his home-based takeaway, named Africana Chops, in 2022, after being incessantly asked by his St Lucian friends for Nigerian fare.The takeaway is now thriving, Dr Ogbo tells the BBC, and not...
August 18, 2025
New wave of African pride rises in the Caribbean
